Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 v2] ipv6: adding ip_nonlocal_bind option from ipv4

[YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>]

Hello.

Mails are crossing, but additional comments below.

Michal Humpula wrote:

> diff --git a/kernel/sysctl_binary.c b/kernel/sysctl_binary.c
> index 1357c57..525edae 100644
> --- a/kernel/sysctl_binary.c
> +++ b/kernel/sysctl_binary.c
> @@ -559,6 +559,7 @@ static const struct bin_table bin_net_ipv6_table[] = {
>  	{ CTL_DIR,	NET_IPV6_ROUTE,		"route",	bin_net_ipv6_route_table },
>  	{ CTL_DIR,	NET_IPV6_ICMP,		"icmp",		bin_net_ipv6_icmp_table },
>  	{ CTL_INT,	NET_IPV6_BINDV6ONLY,		"bindv6only" },
> +	{ CTL_INT,	NET_IPV6_NONLOCAL_BIND,		"ipv6_nonlocal_bind" },
>  	{ CTL_INT,	NET_IPV6_IP6FRAG_HIGH_THRESH,	"ip6frag_high_thresh" },
>  	{ CTL_INT,	NET_IPV6_IP6FRAG_LOW_THRESH,	"ip6frag_low_thresh" },
>  	{ CTL_INT,	NET_IPV6_IP6FRAG_TIME,		"ip6frag_time" },

No more binary interface.

> diff --git a/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c b/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c
> index e830cd4..ed59ec4 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c
> @@ -252,6 +252,8 @@ out_rcu_unlock:
>  	goto out;
>  }
>  
> +int sysctl_ipv6_nonlocal_bind __read_mostly;
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(sysctl_ipv6_nonlocal_bind);
>  

why?

In IPv4 it seems to be exported for SCTP. Probably you need to
look into SCTP as well.

--yoshfuji